Israel from the Outside and Inside
Exploring Israel’s relations with its friends and foes, in the present and the past, by looking into news media outlets and their effect, this study will appeal to those interested in the fascinating sociological forces that influence the regional geopolitics of the Middle East.
This book explores the domestic determinants of Italian policy towards European Political Cooperation (EPC). Highlighting Italy’s Mediterranean links through parliamentary debates and case studies, it provides the first full study of this crucial relationship.
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe
The religious association of Jehovah’s Witnesses has existed for about 150 years in Europe. This volume investigates the effect of the differing circumstances in these various national societies on these religious societies, and the challenges they had to overcome.
Journalism and Politics in Nigeria
This book offers fresh insight into the impact of British colonial rule on contemporary Nigerian politics and journalism. It explores the enduring effects of this inheritance and the unintended consequences that remain problematic more than 100 years later.
Justice and Home Affairs
This study evaluates the conditions determining the EU’s success in changing the internal security of Turkey. Using case studies on organised crime, terrorism and drugs, it explores how the EU ensures alignment with its Justice and Home Affairs standards.
Karachi in the Twenty-First Century
Globalisation has had a major impact on Karachi, geographically and culturally situated within modern Pakistan, but a global city affected by global forces. This title shows how the process has exacerbated local and regional problems, pushing the city to the brink of chaos.
Karl Marx’s Philosophy of Nature, Action and Society
This work analyses Marx’s philosophy of nature as the basis for his practical philosophy. Marx considered humans’ relationship to the world as natural, social, and material. This material feature of human action is the foundation for social critique.
Kissinger and the Invasion of Cyprus
Using the story of Kissinger’s behaviour regarding Cyprus, backed up by recently revealed government documents, Mallinson provides an incisive analysis of Kissinger’s approach, revealing a man who appears to have considered political strategy more important than law and ethics.
Discover how America weaponized avant-garde art as propaganda against Nazi and Soviet threats. Art became ammunition and the canvas a battlefield in the epic ideological struggle between individualism and collectivism.
Knowledge and learning are key to policy change. This book provides theoretical tools to analyse how ideas affect policy outcomes, offering new perspectives on welfare state reform, policy transfer, and diffusion processes in Europe.
Land and Mind
This book is a study of Kenneth White’s geopoetics, applying the concept to Charles Doughty’s Arabia Deserta. The result is not only a reinterpretation of an English classic, but an introduction to a regrounded field of culture.
Leadership and the Problem of Electoral Democracy in Africa
In this text, the notion that African leaders are responsible for electoral malfeasance throughout the continent is explored. Five case studies are selected, to illustrate variations and similarities in the dilemma of electoral democracy in Africa’s political system.
Learning Democratic Practices
This book examines how democracy works by viewing political parties as “communities of practice.” Through interviews with partisans, it shows how they learn to function, revealing what is happening to “democracy” in the United States and how it got that way.
Left and Right
The “great dichotomy” between left and right has gained renewed visibility in the current economic crisis. Should we think with the dichotomy, or beyond its strictures? This volume provides theoretically sound and empirically informed answers.
Legitimisation in Political Discourse
How was the “war-on-terror” linguistically legitimised? This book reveals ‘proximization’: the strategy of presenting distant events as a direct, personal threat to persuade a nation to support the war in Iraq.
Lessons from Political Leadership in Africa
Leadership is the blueprint to transform Africa into a global powerhouse. This book calls for a new generation of bold, passionate, inspiring leaders to fight corruption, make a difference, and change the future towards a bigger, better, and brighter tomorrow!
In post-Gadhafi Libya, the dynamics of religion, tribalism, oil, and ideology dominate the struggle for a new political order. This book examines Libya’s current political and state administration, studying past and present processes rooted in its social and cultural structure.
Local Integration of Refugees in Cameroon
As wars provoke forced migration in Africa, Cameroon has become a safe haven for refugees. This book explores the crises causing this migration, the international legal bases for humanitarian assistance, and the sustainable measures taken by the UNHCR and its partners.
This innovative biography of Luigi Einaudi, an outstanding Italian political personality of the 20th century, highlights his lesser-known contributions. His proposals for a European federation inspired the EU, and his monetary policies prefigured today’s European Central Bank.
Macedonia
This history of Macedonia moves from the kingdom of Philip II and Alexander, through Roman, Byzantine, and Serbian rule, to the Ottoman conquest. This voyage through time not only documents the Macedonian past but also discovers its rich cultural heritage of art and faith.
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